Re: [Talk-ca] Topomaps (was Re: An introduction)

2011-02-05 Thread Dan Charrois
I'm not altogether sure yet of the license the renderings will be under - I'm the technical, not the legal guy. I don't suspect it will be too restrictive, though I'm pretty sure we will want to limit access (particularly batch downloads) to the tile server itself to the users of our iPod/iPad/

Re: [Talk-ca] Topomaps (was Re: An introduction)

2011-02-04 Thread Dan Charrois
Oh - I'm sure you must be right about that. I should have read more carefully. Thanks! Dan On 2011-Feb-04, at 4:12 PM, Kevin Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 15:57 -0700, Dan Charrois wrote: >> Hi Sam! >> >> Where have you found SRTM data at 20 meter intervals? The only data I've

Re: [Talk-ca] Topomaps (was Re: An introduction)

2011-02-04 Thread Dan Charrois
Hi Sam! Where have you found SRTM data at 20 meter intervals? The only data I've found was 3 arcsec (~90m) worldwide, and 1 arcsec (~30) just for the United States. As far as I knew, 1 arcsec data was all that was collected, but even that wasn't released beyond the U.S. borders. Though I sup

Re: [Talk-ca] Topomaps (was Re: An introduction)

2011-02-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
(i have a tendency to forget) - Colin Marcquet is the guy that did hikebikemap.de with the brilliant hill shading and contours (from strm) ... and working on Marble Desktop with it. - Andy Alan is the guy that did cyclemap, I don't have a myPod yet, so i dont know if those renderings are availa

[Talk-ca] Topomaps (was Re: An introduction)

2011-02-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Welcome :) One of my projects is to create a planet set of Transparent Contour maps for Garmin GPS Device and MapSource, taking the SRTM data at 20 meter intervals. One option is to create and save .osm files of this contour data, at 1x1 degree size. (if its needed) Is this anywhere near your